Fantasy World: Where Fantasy Stats Predict the Super Bowl
Rick PaulasWith the Big Game at the End of the Season finally set—only a week-and-a-half of hype left!—nearly all of the analysis is going to be abou...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 21, 2009Fantasy World: The Keeper Rankings
Rick Paulas...Tony Kornheiser's parade, but the only difference Brett Favre would have made on this year's Packers squad was they'd probably have given the Lions their first victory in Week 17. Rodgers was...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 07, 2009Fantasy World: Awards Season
Rick PaulasAhh, the end of the year. It's a time for getting together with the people you love, a time for figuring out what to do with that extra second you'll ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 31, 2008Fantasy World: State of Urgency
Rick Paulas...after watching last week's dismantling of the Packers. Bench: Nobody Baltimore at Dallas, Saturday night Two...based on principle alone. San Diego at Tampa Bay, Sunday early Amazingly, the 6-8 Chargers are...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 17, 2008Fantasy World: Beat the Bye
Rick Paulas(Author's Note: I'm writing this column in a rage after DeAngelo Williams ruined my playoff chances with that cute 36-yard scamper to close out the Mo...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 10, 2008Fantasy World: Time to Wake Up
Rick Paulas...keeping him out of action since. Schaub is due back for this week's game against the Packers, but it's too late in the game to risk your fantasy playoff hopes on someone testing...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2008Fantasy World: Battle of the Matts
Rick PaulasIt's been a big year for Matts: The historic presidential election put reporters Matt Taibbi and Matthew Yglesias in the realm of political powerhouse...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 2008Fantasy World: Designer Imposters
Rick Paulas...Aaron Rodgers — Points: 159; Average Draft Spot 125th Why We Should Have Known Better: Because the Packers' brain trust hasn't made any mistakes regarding their quarterbacks in over 16 years! That's a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2008Hitting the Wall?
Rick Paulas...rookies Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco both led their teams to impressive wins, youngsters Matt Forte, BenJarvis Green-Ellis and Kevin Smith all surpassed or neared the 100-yard plateau, and rook Eddie Royal made...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2008Fantasy World: NFL Parlay!
Rick PaulasLast weekend I took a little trip to Vegas, spending some time watching other people get out the vote while drinking and placing small bets on four-ga...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 05, 2008Fantasy World: Detroit Lions, M.D.
Rick Paulas...the bottom half of NFL pass defenses. Previous Best QB Rating: 143.4, against the vaunted Tampa Bay defense in 2004. Week 12 vs. Tampa Bay: Jeff Garcia or Brian Griese Although Jon Gruden will...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2008FANTASY WORLD: SUPER-SUBS
Rick PaulasLast week, we once again saw the brute strength of Fantasy World's most unreliable weapon: the super-sub. No, I'm not talking about the new Chicken Pi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2008FANTASY WORLD: RE-EXAMINING THE TOP TEN
Rick Paulas...said, things are looking up. Besides two games against the stout Bears defense and one against Tampa Bay, his remaining games all come against teams currently 11th or lower in rushing yards against. Having an...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2008FANTASY WORLD: OF VULTURES AND ANCIENT MEN
Rick PaulasLast weekend saw the emergence of my favorite two groups of NFL players: the Touchdown Vultures, as evidenced by Tim Hightower's two-TD game, and the ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2008FANTASY WORLD: BEATING THE BYE-WEEK BLUES
Rick PaulasLast week, I found myself in a bit of a conundrum. One of my teams had the unfortunate occurrence of having most of my elite players unavailable, nurs...
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